Ruisi

“An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A”
― Simon Schama, Hang-Ups: Essays on Art

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The shadows of woman and child lie heavily athwart our own fears and nightmares and the two become translated, in the empty, indifferent place, from the local to the monumental. They are nobodies and thus become everybody.”
― Simon Schama, Hang-Ups: Essays on Art